Vivian Davies currently directs a programme of epigraphic fieldwork in Egypt and Northern Sudan, the primary focus of research being Egypto-Nubian relations during the end of the Second Intermediate Period and beginning of the New Kingdom. A graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, he was Keeper of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum from 1988 to 2010 and Chairman of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society from 1991 to 2011.
